Joey O'Connor, a top recruit in 2012, decommitted from Penn State last November. He'll sign with Ohio State on Wednesday.

Ohio State recruit Joey O’Connor decommitted on a Thursday from Penn State last November. It wasn’t entirely by design — he’d hope to wait until Sunday, after Windsor’s conference championship game at Frederick.

But, with a TV crew waiting out front of his house, O’Connor’s plans changed. So he decommitted that night.

It had already been a heck of a week.

News of the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State broke that Saturday, then mushroomed on Sunday.

“We were like, ‘We’ll just take this week to week and then we’ll figure it out,’ ” O’Connor said. “Then it turned into a day-to-day thing, and then it turned into a minute-to-minute thing.”

On Monday, O’Connor and his teammates started preparation for Frederick, a team that had beaten them a year earlier, 15-7, thanks in most part to Windsor’s six turnovers. This season’s game was the regular season finale, and a win would secure a good seed in the Class 3A playoffs.

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.